Children's Home won't be forgotten

Recent events surrounding the demolition of the Licking County Children's Home have not only attracted attention, but have evoked mixed emotions for many. It's a turning point for that property and the city of Newark for sure. But, it will not remove the legacy that the Children's Home has forged. Former residents look on it with personal reminiscing, but for my husband and his family. My husband's great aunt, Rosa, is one of the children buried east of the demolition site in the area that now houses the highway department. It's bittersweet to us that while the money is being spent to tear down and renovate an entire building, a salt bin, that seems somewhat temporary by it's structure, still exists on the very spot that was the Children's Home's cemetery.The Children's Home may be dismantled brick by brick, but it's not going away. It lives in fond memories and in distant problems still not resolved that whisper and linger, waiting for a solution that may never come. So bittersweet, as it has always been, we witness another episode in a history that is engrained in this community.

Vonda Henthorne

Newark

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Children's Home won't be forgotten

Recent events surrounding the demolition of the Licking County Children's Home have not only attracted attention, but have evoked mixed emotions for many. It's a turning point for that property and